The following is an excerpt from National Pastimes: Cinema, Sports, and Nation by Katharina Bonzel. The book is the newest title in the Sports, Media, and Society series, which investigates how and why the many different aspects of sports are … Continue reading Excerpt: National Pastimes
The following is an excerpt from The Greatest Upset Never Seen by Jack Danilewicz (Nebraska, 2019). Chapter 7: Miracle on Ward Avenue December 23, 1982. Not yet half past 6:00 p.m., but already darkness has arrived in the tourist district … Continue reading Excerpt: The Greatest Upset Never Seen
The following is an excerpt from Chaucer’s Losers, Nintendo’s Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology by Tison Pugh (Nebraska, 2019), the latest book in the Frontiers of Narrative Series. From Chapter 6: Rules Pregame: May the Better Player Lose! … Continue reading Excerpt: Chaucer’s Loser’s, Nintendo’s Children, & Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology
Books The Greatest Upset Never Seen Jack Danilewicz Praise from the Wall Street Journal: “Entertaining, carefully researched. . . . Mr. Danielwicz has it right: The ‘sun has never set’ on Chaminade’s glorious win. Chances are, it never will.” The Jews Should … Continue reading News and Reviews
David Shields’ Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN USA Award, and named one of the best nonfiction books of 1999 by Esquire, Newsday, LA Weekly, and Amazon. … Continue reading David Shields’ Black Planet & New Documentary
SAVE 50% on over a thousand different titles from our rich and capacious backlist. From Native American History to Latin American Studies, from Military History to African Poetry, from books on the Great Plains to the literature of the American West, there’s … Continue reading Announcing the Fall Sale!
The following is an excerpt from Bodies Built for Game edited by Natalie Diaz with associate editor Hannah Ensor (October 2019). From the introduction by Natalie Diaz: Before each of my basketball games, from rec league to high school, my mother told … Continue reading Excerpt: Bodies Built for Game
Books From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union Katya Cengel Praise from Kirkus Review: “More than her stories, the author has a fine eye for the details of newsroom politics back when newspapers were read … Continue reading News and Reviews
Baseball season may be coming to close soon—but with these great fall books—the games continue in full swing! Baseball is set apart from other sports by many things, but few are more distinctive than the intricate systems of coded language … Continue reading Baseball in the Fall
Jackson Adams and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP. Today they share their thoughts about a few upcoming titles they’re particularly excited about as readers. The books in this discussion will be published in September. Jackson Adams: David A. F. Sweet’s Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial … Continue reading Publicist Picks: Olympic Basketball, the End of the World, and Other September Books
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